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According to this webpage, the series will encompass both Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. It has simply been named after the latter rather than former book. To quote:

Dune Messiah by itself did not resolve completely enough to stand on its own; it set the stage for Children of Dune. But that third book couldn't be the basis for a new miniseries without the precedent of Dune Messiah. So I decided we should combine both books and create a continuation of the first miniseries. Simply put, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune would complete the saga of Muad'Dib and set the stage for what was to come.

John Harrison, the screenwriter and co-producer answers (from here):

Q: What books does Children of Dune cover? Why not call it Dune Messiah?

A: After the enormous success of SCI FI's first Frank Herbert's Dune miniseries, SCI FI asked Richard Rubinstein and me to come up with a proposal for another. After a lot of thought and conversation, it seemed that the next books in Frank Herbert's epic presented unique adaptation opportunities as well as problems.

Dune Messiah by itself did not resolve completely enough to stand on its own; it set the stage for Children of Dune. But that third book couldn't be the basis for a new miniseries without the precedent of Dune Messiah. So I decided we should combine both books and create a continuation of the first miniseries. Simply put, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune would complete the saga of Muad'Dib and set the stage for what was to come.

There is a significant passage in Frank Herbert's Dune, spoken by Reverend Mother Ramallo, in which she tells Paul that "when religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows." Of course she means Muad'Dib -- he is the whirlwind. As Dune fans know, in Dune Messiah he is tortured by what that whirlwind has meant, of what has become of his revolution. And, as students of history, we know that "every revolution contains the seeds of its own destruction." In Children of Dune, those seeds have started to bloom. But there is an answer, a road that Muad'dib was unable or unwilling to take: the Golden Path. By the end of Children of Dune, Muad'dib's son, Leto II, is willing to go down that path.

So I decided to combine both Dune Messiah and Children of Dune into one seamless narrative that would complete this chapter of the Atreides on Arrakis and set the stage for the next 3,000-year era, the Golden Path, and the reign of the God Emperor.

The cast and backstory.

Will Daniela Amavis become the next Natalie Portman? :)

The cast and backstory.

Will Daniela Amavis become the next Natalie Portman? :)

I loved RwR...amazing book and the Rama II was another excellent book...from there it went downhill

I'm interested in how they will do this, to us Rama fans out there the game gave a insight into the Rama II book and it was very good imho (Richard Wakefield just sticks in my head, they casted a very good person to play him in the game...and ACC makes a apperance :) )

Now when i re-read the books the images of the game stick...and i think the aliens and surroundings were authorised by ACC too so...will they stick to it?

I loved RwR...amazing book and the Rama II was another excellent book...from there it went downhill

I'm interested in how they will do this, to us Rama fans out there the game gave a insight into the Rama II book and it was very good imho (Richard Wakefield just sticks in my head, they casted a very good person to play him in the game...and ACC makes a apperance :) )

Now when i re-read the books the images of the game stick...and i think the aliens and surroundings were authorised by ACC too so...will they stick to it?

...you play hide-and-seek with gnomes!

I'd much prefer Slow Glass.

But that's just me...

I might like technical consistence & cluefulness more than most people. The following list of writers reflects that.

Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing just released Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Cory and his work have been mentioned here a time or five before. He just co-wrote Jury Service with Charlie Stross, another loopy fun writer. Stross' Lobsters is online; Stross' interview and appearance on Slashdot made me seek out more. Stross' list of published fiction includes a dozen online versions of stories. Both Doctorow & Stross are entertainingly loopy, and technically consistent & clueful.

John Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up" and "The Shockwave Rider" are good dystopian lit.

Bruce Sterling is still around; he just wrote "Tomorrow Now," a non-fiction futurist book. Zeitgeist, Distraction, and Holy Fire were all enjoyable and insightful.

Vernor Vinge coined the term "singularity." "A Deepness in the Sky" and "A Fire Upon the Deep" have a joining character pre- and post-Singularity, and both won Hugos. He just released some short stories, but I haven't read it yet.

Matt Ruff wrote the science fiction "Sewer Gas & Electric" and fantasy "Fool on the Hill." The first is funny and fast-paced.

I've enjoyed K. W. Jeter, Rudy Rucker, Roger Williams (The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect) a bit...

Technical accuracy isn't his forte, but Jim Monroe, a former managing editor of Adbusters, wrote Angry Young Spaceman and Living in Silico. I downloaded AYS ages ago, but bought a copy during his tour so I can loan it to friends. Oh, and checking now, he's put his 1999 book Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask up.

Why "ask slashdot"? Wouldn't it make more sense to check out some SF related web sites for information and suggestions about SF?

Now I have an unfair advantage in that I live near not one, but two, high quality stores specializing in SF (Other Change of Hobbit and Dark Carnival, both in Berkeley CA), and I get a lot of recommendations by going in there and looking at their recommended shelves, or asking people who work there what's new and good.

If you aren't lucky enough to have a good SF bookstore nearby, then you might want to try some SF websites. This year's Hugo voting included the category of web site (a "one-shot" category that I hope will become permanent in future).Locus Online, the Hugo winner, and SF Site, which came in third, are my two favorites. Both are full of book reviews (and author interviews, and links to other interesting sites. (The second place Hugo vote went to the SciFi Channel's website, which is more oriented towards TV and movies than written SF, but still might be worth a look).

And speaking of awards, the various SF & Fantasy awards are a great place to look for recommendations. Check out the nominee list, not just the winners (it really is an honor just to be nominated), and don't forget to check out other works by the same authors. If you don't like short stories, you should still check out the winners (and nominees) in the short-story categories; they may have written some good novels too. Locus Online (link above) has extensive listings of the major SF awards.

That said, here's a few authors who have been high on my must-read list recently: Lois McMaster Bujold, David Brin, Orson Scott Card, C. J. Cherryh, Greg Egan, Tom Holt, Guy Gavriel Kay, Nancy Kress, Jane Lindskold[1], Ken McLeod[2], Wil McCarthy (yes, one 'l'), Jack McDevitt, Patricia A. McKillip, Robert Rankin, Allen Steele, Neal Stephenson, and Connie Willis. I probably included a few that qualify as "old school", there, and left out a few thinking they were "old school" that you may never have heard of, but such is life.

HTH

[1] Lindskold is an associate of, and collaborated with Zelazny, and is well worth checking out if you like Zelazny, IMO.

[2] MacLeod is the only SF writer I know of who has mentioned Linux in his SF. Others, most notably Stephenson, have mentioned it in non-fiction writings, but only MacLeod so far has embedded it in his fictional future.

http://www.scifi.com/happens/happens_1_big.mov

And an analysis of the video by a special effects expert:

http://www.realufos.com/wtcopinion.shtml

Some people, like me, would say that Farscape is a higher priority than Futurama. That being said, I don't think there's any chance the show can be saved. According to SciFi's Farscape cancellation FAQ:

Q: Have the sets been destroyed?
A: Although they were initially scheduled to be struck during the week of September 9, SCI FI Channel requested a reprieve as any possibility of saving the series was explored. Unfortunately, we understand that the sets will now be struck by Friday, September 20.

Seems to me that if all the sets have been destroyed, there's little hope of bringing the show back...

If the SciFi Channel is planning to nix Farscape, we can at least demonstrate some interest by browsing their site. :)

Did anyone catch their "original movie" Dragon Fighter last weekend? What a cookie-cutter of a plot, predictable and silly. I swear these folks wouldn't know science fiction if Harlan Ellison tattooed it across their butts. Farscape may not have been high art (what on the tube is?), but they did manage to pull off an original episode once in a while.

Ah, I see someone has been watching the could-have-been-last Babylon 5 episode again (The Deconstruction of Falling Stars). Note: That was supposed to be 10 million years into the future.

I won't give up on Firefly yet, despite Fox being a bunch of asschimps for cancelling the show (I guess it is a little too high-brow for Fox, in retrospect)... rather than some fan flicks, I'd rather see fans put effort into saving the series by getting it onto another network like UPN.

I don't know if this was the inspiration, but Exeter is the lead uhh... villan who has a change of heart the end of the bad 50's sci-fi movie This Island Earth - which I only know because Mystery Science Theater 3000 focused their wit on this movie, when they made their Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Movie.

Alas, after a run on the comedy channel and then on the sci-fi channel, production of new shows has been cancelled. They still show reruns Saturday mornings, in fact make sure and check out "Space Mutiny" playing on Jan. 11th. It the funniest one of this last season.

Mst3k - Thank you for all the laughs and bad movies. May you rest in peace.

So THIS is what he has been doing since he "ascended to a higher spiritual plane"...

It does kinda make sense too, being able to translate all those languages so easily, I guess MS Reader isn't that much harder than Egyptian?

(alright, alright... Not funny, I know)

Dream analysis is sci-fi. Didn't you get that memo?

four words: parts: the clonus horror

He was born in the early 1950s and Oshii is considered one of the leading directors of the younger generation.

I personally feel that Oshii's movies are darker and more cynical than Miyazaki's, yet Oshii and Miyazaki are good friends. Oshii has been offered a director's job at Ghibli several times, but the projects were never realized.

• Interview: Oshii speaks about Miyazaki and Takahata
  
• Interview: Miyazaki and Oshii discuss Patlabor 2
  
• Manga: Fearsome Takuwan Rock Head, by Oshii about Miyazaki.&nbsp (image)
  
• Japanese Movie Database entry

Farscape popup page:

Unfortunately, we will have to return the check for $60 that was sent to help pay for a new season.

I spent some time working at the post house that did Farscape down here. Let me tell you US$60 won't even get you a pixel.

A small clip from the SCIFI-FAQ:

Additionally, in past seasons, Farscape had built upon its lead-in program (i.e., had more viewers than the program preceding it - a standard industry indicator of a show's success). For example, during the summer of 2001, Farscape increased 44% in ratings and 51% in households over its lead-in, The Invisible Man. However, this past summer, Farscape lost 29% of its lead-in program in terms of ratings, and 27% in households.

Based on this FarScape lost market share when SciFi cancelled I-Man. Two great campy shows work better than one.

I guess I can not understand network programming.

PS: When you go to the FarScape page... A pop-up about the cancelation appears. My guess it is still cancelled.

Why no link directly to the latest farscape news? Or perhaps the Cancellation FAQ and get some real facts!

A novel concept for /. no doubt ;)

Why no link directly to the latest farscape news? Or perhaps the Cancellation FAQ and get some real facts!

A novel concept for /. no doubt ;)

I just found out that even if Angel were still on the air, Doyle would not be coming back. On Tuesday Glenn Quinn, the actor who played Doyle, died of unrevealed causes. More on this here.

...if we could get a hold of him in ... wherever dead actors go ...

I'm sensing a special episode of Crossing Over with John Edwards coming up. And for the first time in the show's history, it would actually have something to do with the channel it's airing on.

See the glowing review on scifi.com, buy the screenplay, and weep.

Stargate is returning Monday December 16th and 23rd. According to scifi.com's stargate-sg1 page, Stargate will be airing new Episodes on Friday's starting January 10th.

Sci-Fi Schedule Botsays that Saturday, the 7th, they'll show the first 5 episodes back to back (10 hours worth)

Yes, they were thinking. Check out December 14 weekend:

Saturday
Sunday

If you have a VCR to feed make sure you have enough tape.

Yes, they were thinking. Check out December 14 weekend:

Saturday
Sunday

If you have a VCR to feed make sure you have enough tape.

This was filmed in Vancouver BC (Along with many other of your favourite (<- see, Canadian spelling even) shows and movies! GO CANUCKS GO!

Sucky thing is that I don't think I can watch this show on TV up here as our cable package doesn't get us SciFi. Damnit... I guess I have to wait till it shows up on the p2p nets

The final eleven episodes of Farscape begin in January of next year.

I just noticed that too.
But the important part is that some of the 12 related stories
have links to buying tickets.

Since then... None of the 20th century SF seems to have gotten the world around the year 2000 right.

Read some of John Brunner's work, notably Stand on Zanzibar and The Shockwave Rider. Written in the 60s and 70s, it's scary how well they seem to be predicting the early 21st century.

Since then... None of the 20th century SF seems to have gotten the world around the year 2000 right.

Read some of John Brunner's work, notably Stand on Zanzibar and The Shockwave Rider. Written in the 60s and 70s, it's scary how well they seem to be predicting the early 21st century.

I don't know what you mean about the gate thingy

I was a little skeptical of the egg in the radiator too. In fact, even as I was posting, that very thought occurred to me.

Small nuclear power plants? We had those back in the 1970s.

(best -- show -- ever, except for when they "jumped the aliens")

Shanks left the series at the end of season five, and his character gave up human life and ascended to a higher plane of existence.

Well you know I find it suspicious that the Cordelia character in Angel has also just returned from some higher plane of something-or-other. Maybe her and Daniel Jackson (ascended) were getting it on in some weird posthuman sense?

Right from SFC's mouth.

Well, perhaps if you were slightly less ignorant (I know it's tough, but don't give up) you might have read this story. If you look reeeallly hard, maybe you can pick it out. I know, I know, it's more than two sentences, but pretend it's just a bunch of groups of two sentences each and maybe you'll get through.

By the way, next time it might be a good idea not to act as if you know everything, because chances are very good that you don't.

My question is this - did you like his stuff? While a few of the stories are big misses, most of the pieces are pretty fun. My personal favorite is Arsenic.

Also, I have a personal favorite for microfiction online, now that Michael Swanwick is writing a story for every element in the periodic table.

I think with the addition of Roger Engels as the head writer the upcoming season(s) should prove more interesting.